Begins most refreshingly with David Tennant playing Nick Davies playfully, to audience, redacting and changing names at will. (Funny moment when we meet 'Mr. Apollo' and several unlikely candidates - including Jonathan Ross - open the door first, before being rejected for Adrian Lester, who has the right gravitas).
Then episode 2 abruptly takes us back 10 years to the story of a police detective (Robert Carlyle) who is trying to gain convictions on a gang of lovely thugs, finds the News of The World's paid freelance journalist harassing him. (So many well known guest appearances here it begins to be distracting. Shh. Shouldn't complain.) This part of the story is filmed 'straight'. Then continues to cross cut both stories, bringing them into the same orbit.
I have to say - we'd been watching The Morning Show - and this was much more interesting.
Overall it's a good way of getting over a mound of complex material and is more entertaining than a straight documentary. Ultimately it's another massive fuck up by our government which seems to leave the industry open to such interferences (not a strong enough word, I know) in the future.
Great cast: Toby Jones, Rose Leslie, Eve Myles, Kevin Doyle, Daniel Ryan, Dougray Scott (Gordon Brown), Lee Ingleby, Neil Maskell, Pip Torrens, Steve Pemberton, Phil Davies, Ron Cooke, Sean Pertwee, Paul Kaye... see what I mean?
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